Western Learning and the Rift in Late Ming Thought

Author: He Jun
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Publish Date: 1998-08-01
Features: This book, through a review of late Ming thought, points out the issues that need further development in late Ming thought, examines the introduction of Western learning, analyzes the basic content that unfolds in the intellectual level due to this introduction, discusses how late Ming scholars understood and dealt with Western learning based on the resolution of their own problems. At the same time, it analyzes and discusses the early and later stages of the spread of Western learning, combined with its instrumental use of morality and technology during the spread, as well as the Christian concepts of heaven, soul, and cultivation that are presented in the intellectual level.